Training for the big leagues

Advance File Photo- Now that his St. Peter’s Boys High School soccer season is over, you would think things would be a little calmer for Kris Bistre. They aren’t.

Not when you’re a senior who is only months away from having to take his game to the next level. For the two-time Advance All Star, that will be at Caldwell College in Caldwell, N.J., where the New Dorp resident has been told he’ll play attacking midfielder for the Division II program that competes in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference.

Bistre worked very hard to be one of the key cogs for St. Peter’s, which won its second straight Staten Island High School Soccer League title in 2009. “But I’m training 10 times as hard now,” he said. “College ball is a lot more difficult. I’ve never worked this hard.”

The Caldwell College staff hasn’t sent him an off season workout regimen yet — “They’re supposed to be mailing it to me any day now,” he said — so Bistre in the interim is following his older brother Tommy‘s training plan that he had when he played soccer at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, N.J.

That regimen includes: 40-yard dashes; running two miles in under 13 minutes; 100-yard sprints; jogging daily; and regular weightlifting sessions at the gym, “specifically, a lot of squats,” said Bistre, a very physical player at the high school level who knows he’ll need to increase his strength if he intends to keep playing in that same fashion for Caldwell.

But the best way Bistre is keeping in “soccer shape” is by continuing to compete in the sport for his Island-based travel team, the Silver Lake Dinamo.